Have a Great Weekend, Friends
January 28, 2010
Friends,
I am ahead of schedule this week to bring you some wholesome entertainment. This is because in the next two days Kamsiah and I will be at her niece’s wedding ceremonies. I have chosen with appropriate advice from Kamsiah to feature some of the finest female vocalists for your weekend pleasure. I think we all deserve some light entertainment after heavy politiking on this blog.
We must ease tensions and remember that Malaysia is a beautiful place to be, although it can be better if we are a united people, less conscious of our colour, race and creed. I am proud to be Malaysian, and it is hard for me to trade places. But I am also a Malaysian who recognises that Malaysia “tak boleh semua”, although some of our leaders “sapu semua”, leaving crumps for the rest of us. Have a good weekend.–DJ Din Merican
Joni Mitchell– Both Sides Now
Petula Clark–Love, This is My Song
Anne Murray–Snowbird
Natalie Cole–Orange Coloured Sky
Vanessa Williams–Save the Best for Last
Brenda Lee– I want to be wanted
Diana Krall–The Look of Love
Malaysia is like another woman in love – she falls and she stumbles.
Mr Bean - January 28, 2010 at 11:39 pm
Malaysia is just another woman in love. She fumbles and falls.
Mr Bean - January 28, 2010 at 11:42 pm
When she is not fumbling and stumbling, she (Malaysia) is dreaming.
Mr Bean - January 28, 2010 at 11:47 pm
“This is because in the next two days Kamsiah and I will be at her niece’s wedding ceremonies. ” – Din
How nice if Christians have a bersanding and anak nikah ceremony and Muslims have their weddings in a church?
That will help to cool off this pig head throwing and church firebombing incidents in the country.
And Din can be our Alfred Doolittle in My Fair Lady for this weekend:
Frank - January 28, 2010 at 11:52 pm
And one for the Ladies :
ocho-onda - January 29, 2010 at 1:26 am
” How nice if Christians have a bersanding and anak nikah ceremony …” Frank
What the hell is “anak nikah”?? Are you suggesting that the bride is “with child”??
Mr Bean - January 29, 2010 at 1:32 am
How nice if Christians have a bersanding ceremony?
Frank, are you suggesting that the pastor blesses their marriage as well and the mufti says”I pronounce you husband and wife” and “You may kiss the bride”?? Life is already complicated and you want to complicate things further?
Mr Bean - January 29, 2010 at 1:38 am
This one is for our Tok Cik – Sharifah Aini medley and Misha to titillate his senses.
Mr Bean - January 29, 2010 at 1:54 am
Sheeesh …! I sure miss the girls in Malaysia.
Mr Bean - January 29, 2010 at 1:58 am
Wah Din bukan main awal lagi minggu ni. Saya tahu sekarang bulan penuh dan Din ok tengah mabuk cinta. Macam masa umur 16 dulu di tepi Wat Bakar Bata. Semoga berbahagia semua rakyat Malaysia.
Life is already complicated and you want to complicate things further? Bean.
Bean, Actually it is not that complicated. In fact I am happy to see pictures of people “samak” the mosque after the pig head incident. Clearly people are matured now and they know that some idiots are provocating. If the similar case happen in Nigeria am not sure how many human heads will be chopped off.
Bravo rational Malaysians and let’s go to Batu Cave and enjoy the colours, the smell and the sound of Taipusam.
Sorry for you Dr. Bean. At your best you can only dating Paris Hilton at Pasadena and you can’t poke her as much as our Indian friends poking their bodies on Thaipusam day. Look..
tean - January 29, 2010 at 2:09 am
Can’t get over this one ….. sob, sob ..
Mr Bean - January 29, 2010 at 2:10 am
Hey tean!! There’s more to life than ‘poking’.
Mr Bean - January 29, 2010 at 2:12 am
sob* sob*
Mr Bean - January 29, 2010 at 6:04 am
“Mengapa kau bersedih?
“Diriku ini yang selalu setia pada mu”…Sharifah Aini?
Dr. Bean,
You should play this song for Dr. Kam.
tean - January 29, 2010 at 6:15 am
You can’t play anthing for drkam. Din Merican is gonna get angry.
___________
New Yorker Bean, it is okay by me if you wish to dedicate a song to dr.kam. She likes good music,especially contemporary R&B. Please go ahead.—Din Merican
Mr Bean - January 29, 2010 at 6:47 am
What the hell is “anak nikah”?? Are you suggesting that the bride is “with child”??- Mr.Bean
Ahhh!!! Mr. Bean, Its “naik nikah… ” slip of the keyboard is no slip of the fingers.
Frank - January 29, 2010 at 8:36 am
“Frank, are you suggesting that the pastor blesses their marriage as well and the mufti says”I pronounce you husband and wife” “-Mr.Bean
Two options: The mufti can conduct the ceremony the Muslim way in church. After all God is Allah and Allah is God. Everything else practised by mortals are just RITUALS and rituals are culture based,not religion based. And God/Allah in all his Compassion will and All-Knowing should able to differentiate between what is Culture and what is Spiritual. Otherwise, God/Allah is living on another planet.
Second option: The pastor can conduct the service the Islamic way and use the Quran instead of the Bible and instead pronounce, ” Go forth and be fruitful and multiply to contribute to the wealth of the ummah of Christians”.
Bersanding ceremony is Malay culture and has nothing to do with Islam. It is a “Raja Sehari”. It would be nice if after a Christian ceremony in church, the bride and bride-groom undertake the bersanding ceremony. I suggest this should be in the Policy Paper on One Culture Malaysia of Pakatan Rakyat.
This wearing of white gown walking down the aisle is a throwback to our British colonial history.What’s with a white gown to represent purity, virgin steady and all the crap.Nowadays there is nothing pure when a kid(boy and girl when their sex hormones are raging at the age of 15. Forget the white wedding dress.The bride should be wearing a RED wedding dress instead.
Frank - January 29, 2010 at 8:46 am
Din
Mr Bean’s favorite lullaby each time he goes to bed:
Frank - January 29, 2010 at 9:00 am
Thanks Tean, Bean and Frank. Today is Akad Nikah and tomorrow is the wedding reception and banquet
drkam - January 29, 2010 at 12:05 pm
OK now that I see a picture of (as they say over here) “drop dead gorgeous” drkam, I’m reminded how lucky our Din Merican is i.e. to be alive. For those unfamiliar with the term ‘drop dead gorgeous’ here is one definition given by Urban Dictionary:
“Someone who at first glance is so gorgeous, it is hard to look away. So you look on which makes your heart beat faster and then time slows. Your heart follows slowing while thumping louder and louder. Then you open one eye then the next the doctor turns to your girlfriend and says he’s fine. 50 years later you tell your grandkids the day you actually saw someone so fine you almost dropped dead.”
Mr Bean - January 29, 2010 at 8:49 pm
I don’t understand. Why do people marry??
Mr Bean - January 29, 2010 at 11:45 pm
drkam look alike ….well, almost
Mr Bean - January 29, 2010 at 11:55 pm
I don’t understand. Why do people marry?? – bean
Simply to complete the sequence of a pre-destined journey that begins with the engagement-ring which is then followed by the wedding-ring , which in turn ushers in a new chapter that ends in a lifetime of suffe-ring
Danildaud - January 30, 2010 at 1:32 am
In a life time of suffering?? Somehow I got a feeling Din Merican will be the first to disagree
Mr Bean - January 30, 2010 at 3:55 am
Thanks, Frank for the ‘evergreen’. Sweet dreams.
Mr Bean - January 30, 2010 at 3:59 am
” Nowadays there is nothing pure when a kid(boy and girl when their sex hormones are raging at the age of 15. Forget the white wedding dress.The bride should be wearing a RED wedding dress instead.” Frank
Good Lord, Frank! You’re more confused that I thought.
Mr Bean - January 30, 2010 at 4:04 am
“New Yorker Bean, it is okay by me if you wish to dedicate a song to dr.kam. She likes good music,especially contemporary R&B. Please go ahead.—Din Merican
So Din Merican, step aside. Here’s from the guys to ‘drop dead gorgeous’ drkam. Please put on your BOSE earphones.
Thanks Bean_____kamsiah
Mr Bean - January 30, 2010 at 4:33 am
Good Lord, Frank! You’re more confused that I thought.- Mr Bean
Well, then, PINK wedding dress, if RED is too obvious.
Frank - January 30, 2010 at 4:41 am
Hello Bean and Frank.
When both of you were young and naughty, colour of wedding dress must be missing from your lexicon. Too busy dissecting the anatomy of the girls wearing those dress?
Now, you have all the time to debate on the colour of outer layers.
Look this songs is for both of you.
tean - January 30, 2010 at 5:59 am
Pink?? That takes it in another direction – homophobia and not just Islamophobia!
Mr Bean - January 30, 2010 at 6:36 am
“Pink?? That takes it in another direction – homophobia and not just Islamophobia!”-Mr.Bean
Perhaps you like GREEN wedding gowns. International colour for “anything goes.”
Frank - January 30, 2010 at 7:41 am
O-Sama should be happy with green. Tean would be green with envy.
Mr Bean - January 30, 2010 at 7:44 am
Hi there I like your post
Barbar Blaylock - February 11, 2010 at 10:25 pm